2 charged with child neglect after anonymous complaint

Amanda Kaye Clayton, left, and Anthony Sosebee

By STAFF REPORTS / Daily News

Published: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 09:28 PM.

A Fort Walton Beach couple was charged with child neglect Tuesday after Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies found evidence of drug use and no running water in the home they lived in with three children.

An anonymous caller reported 26-year-old Anthony Sosebee and 24-year-old Amanda Kaye Clayton to the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Deputies walked through the couple’s home Tuesday. Immediately after entering, they found an unidentified man passed out on the couch with a bottle of whiskey under his right leg, according to their arrest reports.

The bathrooms were full of animal feces.

A video game case on top of the refrigerator had about 2 grams of marijuana inside.

A pink box on the windowsill contained a metal pipe, a glass pipe and a light bulb converted into a methamphetamine pipe, which tested positive for the drug, their arrest reports stated.

Dishes were piled up in the kitchen sink and there was little food in the home.

There was nowhere for the children or adults to sleep, deputies wrote in the arrest reports. One bedroom had a dirty toddler bed without a mattress and dirty toys littered the floor.

Sosebee was charged with child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Clayton was charged with child neglect

Both were taken to Okaloosa County Jail.

Clayton was released Wednesday on bond. Jail records showed no bond had been set for Sosebee.

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A Fort Walton Beach couple was charged with child neglect Tuesday after Okaloosa County sheriff's deputies found evidence of drug use and no running water in the home they lived in with three children.

An anonymous caller reported 26-year-old Anthony Sosebee and 24-year-old Amanda Kaye Clayton to the Florida Department of Children and Families.

Deputies walked through the couple’s home Tuesday. Immediately after entering, they found an unidentified man passed out on the couch with a bottle of whiskey under his right leg, according to their arrest reports.

The bathrooms were full of animal feces.

A video game case on top of the refrigerator had about 2 grams of marijuana inside.

A pink box on the windowsill contained a metal pipe, a glass pipe and a light bulb converted into a methamphetamine pipe, which tested positive for the drug, their arrest reports stated.

Dishes were piled up in the kitchen sink and there was little food in the home.

There was nowhere for the children or adults to sleep, deputies wrote in the arrest reports. One bedroom had a dirty toddler bed without a mattress and dirty toys littered the floor.

Sosebee was charged with child neglect, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Clayton was charged with child neglect

Both were taken to Okaloosa County Jail.

Clayton was released Wednesday on bond. Jail records showed no bond had been set for Sosebee.